I don't actually have a reason for trying to build a Linux kernel with the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch set. There's no way I can even measure the impact of it. Still, I felt like having a "real-time" Linux box, and set out to make one. Little did I know how difficult it would be to even get started.

I have to say, reading this has not been any fun. Or funny. Or interesting. I'd say such stuff would've been better placed in a low class linux newbie blog. The steps described and the things done would be ok if my art major sister wrote them. Otherwise, geez.